Documentation

Listed here, in reverse chronological order, are academic publications discussing joint speech in some detail. There are contributions to phonetics, movement science, social psychology, and neuroscience, along with several theoretical articles.

Selim, S. (2016, August 13). Critical Discourse Analysis of the Chanted Slogans during the incidents of the Egyptian revolution. MSc Thesis, Benha University, faculty of Arts, English Department [Available online]

Here we use fMRI to demonstrate that cortical activity is markedly different when speaking in real-time synchronoy with a live person, but not with a recording, even when the speaker does not know the difference themselves.

Short paper arguing that the phonetic form of joint speech is relatively unremarkable, and that conventional approaches to the analysis and understanding of speech will miss that which is special about joint speech.

Cummins, F., Li, C., and Wang, B. (2013). Coupling among speakers during synchronous speaking in English and Mandarin.Journal of Phonetics. 41(6):432–441. [pdf]